WHERE ARE YOU?

Where are you? No, I don’t mean your physical location -- whether you’re in a house, a store, at the office, or heading to the gym. I mean, where is your REAL self, your real being, at? Where are you on the journey of life? Not where your body is at this point, but where is your soul at?

Where are you heading with your being?

Everyone knows that when you travel you have to begin at your current location. When we turn on our GPS to take us somewhere, it begins by finding our current location. Unless you know where you are, you have no way of knowing how to go to where you want.

Because our EGO is so bound to the culture of the world that live in, we are always concerned about where we “are” in terms of temporal success – where we are with our job, relationships, career goals, dreams, etc. Yet our physical life in the world represents less than 5% of our actual being! The real person that we are, in our spirit, has much greater “location volume” and “location weight” than our physical life ever does. What do I mean by that? What I mean is that our spirit is actually located in God not in our self! Our true being actually lives in another realm. Jesus called it the Kingdom of God, Paul called in the Spirit, but what it is, is a realm that is entirely within and through God Himself. This is the location our consciousness needs to awaken to.

In Genesis 3:9, we find an interesting question that God asks Adam:
‘Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”’

After Adam hid himself from the presence of the Lord, God came to him by asking the question, “Where are you?” Of course, God already knew where Adam was, but Adam still had to admit to himself and to God where he was.

Adam was hiding in his little “me”, away from God and believing that he was now “separate”. God’s question was not to raise guilt or shame, but to suggest that where Adam was trying be was a lie, an illusion! I mean, how can you “hide” from God’s Omnipresence, Faithful Love or Immensity?

Sometimes our lives feel very unsatisfactory and we feel a great deal of discontent with it. The reason for this is that our spirit is reminding us of where our real LOCATION is – with God -- and that where we think we – behind a tree-- is actually a lie. The voice of God in our spirit is trying to reveal our true location. And it becomes very obvious to us that where we believe we “are” -- in terms of our thinking, feeling, desires plans, purposes and pursuits -- is actually not in God, but in our self.

“ME” is a very LITTLE world. “Me, myself and I” are the most isolated, restricted and unhappy places for us to be located. Now, that’s not what the world tries to sell us. The world tries to convince us that living in the little world of “me myself and I” is the most exciting, happy and fulfilling place we could ever imagine. But anyone who honest with themselves will tell you that it just isn’t and never will be true.

Spiritual AWAKENING in Christ encompasses two awakenings in one. And they have to do with location. The first realization and spiritual awakening is that where I have been living my whole life -- that is in this “little me” – has been a lie and a terrible place of suffering. The second realization is that our true abode is actually with the Son, in God Himself.

Authentic spirituality is a real RELOCATION. We relocate our true being: WITH the Son, IN God, THROUGH the Spirit. It is, at once, discovering that where we have been living is a lie and where we really live requires revelation and a renewing of our mind.

“For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Your real life is Christ and when he appears, then you too will appear with him and share his glory!” ~Colossians 3:3‭-‬4 GNT

The thing about our TRUE LOCATION (which is found in this verse) is that where we truly live is forever with Christ and forever in God. These two little words – “WITH” and “IN” -- are highly significant. They describe our ontological reality. What we really are is forever WITH Christ as One Reality. And what we really are is forever IN God as our Source. This is the location that God’s consciousness within us is forever trying to reveal to our heart.

Sometimes in our lives, when we are living for vanity, when we are in our own little world with our own self-centred goals and aims, there comes a consciousness within us with words that form in our thoughts saying, “Where am I? What am I doing with my life? Where will my life end up?” It may seem like your own mind is doing the talking, but we must realize that God’s voice comes to us as he is writing it into our consciousness into our own thoughts and heart.

God is “talking” to us through our own consciousness. This happens more than you can ever realize. It is the dynamic of His Spirit. He is not merely talking AT us, he is infusing and supplying INTO our consciousness the very thing He is speaking about. He is trying to make us aware of our location.

You probably do not realize how much of the Lord’s speaking you have in your daily life. For example, you may be remembering something stupid you did, some ambition you have, some dream you want fulfilled, some nagging sense of dissatisfaction during the day. Perhaps as you were washing the dishes, you thought about what kind of person you are. Actually, all this is God saying, “Where are you?”

Your Father is speaking to you, putting things on your heart so that you remember that your life isn’t meant to hide behind trees in a garden, but to take God’s blessing and spread His garden around the world.

You can’t hear God’s voice and stay small or play the victim. When you discover your real location in God, limits come down. Barriers are broken through. Impossibilities become possible.

Beloved, you are in the Father’s house now. You are a son, not a slave, an heir, not a servant. Your life is not to be hidden, but REVEALED.

So, come out from behind the tree. Walk again with God in the garden.

Reacquainted yourself with your original commission: YOU ARE BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING.